Echo and Narcissus
While film studies has turned from spectator theory to audience research, this book argues for a productive nexus between them. It offers a revised model of the spectator through a re-reading of Ovid’s myth of Echo and Narcissus.
Postcolonial Borderlands
This volume explores the marginalization of Irish Travellers. Focusing on two autobiographies, it reveals the seminal role of storytelling in creating a sense of nationhood and a legitimate sense of belonging for a people excluded to society’s margins.
What is rational choice? Can a society make rational decisions? This book is a primer in rational and social choice theory for students and teachers. An up-to-date textbook full of examples and exercises, it combines formal results with the latest research.
The Persecution of Professors in the New Turkey
This book tells the story of an American academic, Clyde R. Forsberg Jr., living and working in the AKP heartland of Turkey. It recounts the events surrounding his wrongful arrest for “aiding and abetting a terrorist organization”, employing a media studies approach.
This book analyzes the rise of Homo Sapiens, from the cosmic conditions of Earth’s birth to the future of our species. It considers the development of civilization, our role on the planet, and what lies ahead: space conquest, AI, and genetic enhancement.
Emma di Resburgo
A tale of dynastic rivalry, kidnap, and usurpation in a wild Scotland, Emma di Resburgo established Meyerbeer’s reputation in Italy. This milestone of Romantic opera blends the Rossinian idiom with the composer’s own technical mastery and rich invention.
Religious Attachment
Using attachment theory, this book explores the faith experiences of Christian women. Based on in-depth interviews, it identifies three patterns of religious attachment—Distance/Avoidance, Anxiety/Ambivalence, and Security—with practical implications for pastoral care.
The Selected Letters of Charles Whibley
Scholar Charles Whibley straddled the Victorian age and the modern world. After his journalistic grounding with W.E. Henley, he moved in Parisian circles with Mallarmé and later befriended T.S. Eliot, who called his column “Musings without Method” a masterpiece of journalism.
Explore the preaching and teaching of Rudolf Bultmann and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Often misunderstood, this book objectively views their methods of biblical interpretation, showing how both sought to communicate the Gospel in a relevant manner during a challenging time.
A critical analysis of the impact of the Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe is offered here, looking at how politicisation led to the violation of human rights. The book also looks at the enduring impact this has left on the victims, mostly children.
This volume of Meyerbeer’s non-operatic work is devoted to his secular choral writing for male voices, solo songs with chorus, and songs with instrumental obbligato and local colour. These include patriotic anthems, a tribute to Beethoven, and laments.
Helena Peričić’s brave, open-hearted testimony of surviving the Homeland War in Croatia during the ’90s.
This bilingual edition includes the English translation and the original Croatian text.
Republican, First, Last, and Always
B. Carroll Reece, a 35-year congressman and RNC Chairman, pushed anti-communism to the forefront of Republican politics. Believing capitalism was America’s strongest defense, he attacked any threat—from government projects to powerful foundations.
The House, the World, and the Theatre
Cáffaro departs from three ideologically resonant spatial metaphors to discuss key aspects of nineteenth-century literature and culture, namely the way authors used their prefaces to fashion themselves to cater to ever-expanding audiences and to the new conditions of publishing.
Beyond Words
When interpretation no longer applies, the Othering Excursion begins. This book elaborates a new method for reading texts that use disruptive rhetoric and distortion to point beyond cultural norms, finding meaning in zones of literary obscurity.
Emerging Services Sector and Inclusiveness
India’s services sector drives GDP and exports, but its failure to create jobs questions its inclusive growth. This book analyzes the sector’s role in the Indian economy, examining key issues like employment, trade, and foreign direct investment.
This collection offers innovative strategies and practical advice for teaching eighteenth-century texts. Authors share a wealth of experience and best practices for engaging students with Western and non-Western literature from this important period.
Battleground States
This volume collects work from emerging scholars examining cultural scholarship in a global world. Bringing together diverse thoughts on politics, film, history, and literature, these voices explore the threads that bind us and the forces that seek to separate us.
Advancing Africa’s Sustainable Development
This book provides papers from a conference on advancing science, technology, and innovation in Africa. Though from various countries, the contributors all share a common interest in furthering science research, education, and disease surveillance.
This book uses Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness to question the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. It contrasts the logic of linear growth with the Buddhist approach of “Respect all Sentient Beings”—a model centered on community, compassion, and inner peace for all life.